Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 775 725 916
Rank change year-on-year -50 +191 -164
Permanent jobs citing CCIE 132 225 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 0.70% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 87 137 282
10th Percentile - £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +18.52%
75th Percentile £71,725 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £106,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -21.21% +26.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,927 31,974 45,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.61% 33.78% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,434 19,201
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,503 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

CCIE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCIE.

Salary trend for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCIE over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -28 117 £60,000 -14.29% 25
UK excluding London -20 97 £55,000 -15.38% 17
Work from Home -38 66 £48,500 -39.38% 17
Midlands +23 37 £48,500 -46.11%
West Midlands +21 36 £48,500 -46.11%
North of England +42 28 £60,000 -25.00% 8
London +47 27 £70,000 -15.15% 12
Yorkshire +71 17 £62,525 - 4
South East -29 16 £60,000 -7.69% 2
North West -3 11 £60,000 -25.00% 4
South West -39 9 £48,500 - 1
Scotland - 4 £75,000 - 2
Wales - 3 - -
East Midlands - 1 £51,700 -

CCIE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.52%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.52%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.39%) Azure
2 9 (6.82%) AWS
3 4 (3.03%) GCP
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.52%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.76%) IaaS
5 1 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 86 (65.15%) WAN
2 68 (51.52%) LAN
3 58 (43.94%) Firewall
4 54 (40.91%) BGP
5 53 (40.15%) Network Security
6 52 (39.39%) OSPF
7 47 (35.61%) SD-WAN
8 42 (31.82%) MPLS
9 37 (28.03%) Wireless
10 34 (25.76%) WLAN
11 31 (23.48%) VPN
12 26 (19.70%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (14.39%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (13.64%) VLAN
15 15 (11.36%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (10.61%) Cisco Firepower
17 13 (9.85%) VoIP
18 12 (9.09%) NGFW
19 11 (8.33%) TCP/IP
20 10 (7.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
General
1 49 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.39%) Retail
3 11 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.33%) Finance
3 11 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (6.82%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.55%) Legal
6 4 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.27%) Automotive
7 3 (2.27%) Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Electronics
7 3 (2.27%) Local Government
7 3 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Front Office
8 2 (1.52%) Games
8 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 54 (40.91%) Network Engineer
2 38 (28.79%) Senior
3 32 (24.24%) Analyst
3 32 (24.24%) Network Analyst
4 31 (23.48%) Network Operations Analyst
4 31 (23.48%) Operations Analyst
5 18 (13.64%) Architect
5 18 (13.64%) Senior Network Engineer
6 13 (9.85%) Consultant
7 10 (7.58%) IT Engineer
7 10 (7.58%) Security Consultant
8 8 (6.06%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.30%) Network Consultant
9 7 (5.30%) Senior Architect
10 6 (4.55%) Project Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.55%) Senior Network Analyst
10 6 (4.55%) Senior Network Architect
10 6 (4.55%) Senior Operations Analyst
11 5 (3.79%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.03%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.52%) Web Services
3 1 (0.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.48%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.30%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (5.30%) FMCG
2 7 (5.30%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.79%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.79%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.79%) PropTech
5 3 (2.27%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.27%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.27%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.27%) PKI
6 2 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.52%) Cybercrime
6 2 (1.52%) EPoS
6 2 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.52%) IoT
6 2 (1.52%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.82%) Android
1 9 (6.82%) Windows
2 7 (5.30%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.03%) Linux
5 3 (2.27%) CatOS
6 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (22.73%) Computer Science
2 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (18.94%) Roadmaps
4 23 (17.42%) Network Architecture
5 18 (13.64%) Project Management
6 17 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (12.88%) Mentoring
6 17 (12.88%) Network Design
6 17 (12.88%) Project Delivery
7 16 (12.12%) Network Monitoring
8 14 (10.61%) Network Virtualisation
9 12 (9.09%) Business Analysis
10 11 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.58%) Patch Management
12 9 (6.82%) High Availability
12 9 (6.82%) Information Security
12 9 (6.82%) Service Delivery
12 9 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (6.06%) Change Management
13 8 (6.06%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.82%) Python
2 4 (3.03%) Bash
3 1 (0.76%) C#
3 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 110 (83.33%) CCNP
3 37 (28.03%) CCNA
4 36 (27.27%) CCDP
5 35 (26.52%) Degree
6 26 (19.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (17.42%) CISSP
8 12 (9.09%) Security Cleared
9 11 (8.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
10 9 (6.82%) Master's Degree
11 6 (4.55%) CCIE Security
11 6 (4.55%) CCSP
11 6 (4.55%) JNCIE
12 5 (3.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (3.79%) CISM
13 4 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (3.03%) JNCIA
13 4 (3.03%) MCSE
13 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) NIST
2 5 (3.79%) SLA
3 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.52%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
4 2 (1.52%) GxP
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Active Directory
1 7 (5.30%) Firmware
2 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (8.33%) Ansible
2 4 (3.03%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.52%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (1.52%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.76%) CASB
4 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.76%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 81 (61.36%) Cisco
2 37 (28.03%) Palo Alto
3 23 (17.42%) Fortinet
4 22 (16.67%) CheckPoint
5 21 (15.91%) Meraki
6 12 (9.09%) VMware
7 11 (8.33%) Aruba
7 11 (8.33%) F5
8 8 (6.06%) Zscaler
9 7 (5.30%) Ekahau
9 7 (5.30%) Microsoft
10 6 (4.55%) Juniper
11 5 (3.79%) Blue Coat
11 5 (3.79%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (3.79%) Netskope
11 5 (3.79%) Symantec
12 3 (2.27%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.52%) Apple
13 2 (1.52%) Huawei
14 1 (0.76%) Nokia